The New Opera del Duomo Museum: narrating Florence’s history

Founded in 1891, the Museum preserves the history of the Piazza Duomo and exhibits the masterpieces that have graced it. In 2015, the Museum was renewed, and transformed. With 750 works of art, over 6,000 sq m and 28 rooms, it covers 700 years of history.

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A tour by

Beatrice Galuzzo

Beatrice Galluzzo is an Italian independent curator, project manager, and contemporary art historian, whose research mostly focuses on the existing relation between contemporary art and migration politics.

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The New Opera del Duomo Museum: narrating Florence’s history

The New Opera del Duomo Museum: narrating Florence’s history

Beatrice Galuzzo

1. St. John the Baptist

2. The work of many hands

3. The Façade by Franco Gizdulich

4. Face of St. John the Baptist

5. Porta della Mandorla

6. The Column of San Zanobi

7. Madonna with Glass Eyes

8. Porta del Paradiso

9. Penitent Mary Magdalene

10. St. Catherine of Alexandria

11. Reliquary of the Passion

12. Reliquary of St. John the Baptist

13. Pietà by Michelangelo

14. New Staircase

15. The Sacrifice of Isaac

16. God creating Eve

17. Dome by Franco Gizdulich

18. Original Instruments

19. Piero Farnese’s funerary monument

20. Cantorie, by Donatello and Della Robbia

21. Model of the Choir by Baccio Bandinelli

22. The vestment of Santa Reparata

23. The Altar

24. The Cross

25. Façade by Emilio de Fabris

26. The Music Chapel

﻿ The New Opera del Duomo Museum: narrating Florence’s history

﻿ The New Opera del Duomo Museum: narrating Florence’s history

Beatrice Galuzzo

1. St. John the Baptist

2. The work of many hands

3. The Façade by Franco Gizdulich

4. Face of St. John the Baptist

5. Porta della Mandorla

6. The Column of San Zanobi

7. Madonna with Glass Eyes

8. Porta del Paradiso

9. Penitent Mary Magdalene

10. St. Catherine of Alexandria

11. Reliquary of the Passion

12. Reliquary of St. John the Baptist

13. Pietà by Michelangelo

14. New Staircase

15. The Sacrifice of Isaac

16. God creating Eve

17. Dome by Franco Gizdulich

18. Original Instruments

19. Piero Farnese’s funerary monument

20. Cantorie, by Donatello and Della Robbia

21. Model of the Choir by Baccio Bandinelli

22. The vestment of Santa Reparata

23. The Altar

24. The Cross

25. Façade by Emilio de Fabris

26. The Music Chapel

The New Opera del Duomo Museum: narrating Florence’s history

The New Opera del Duomo Museum: narrating Florence’s history